Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org and ThirdAct.org. His most recent book is 'Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?.
In one of the futile demonstrations that marked the run-up to the Iraq war, I saw a woman with a sign that read 'How Did Our Oil End Up Under Their Sand?' In nine words she managed to sum up a great deal of American foreign policy, back at least as far as the 1953 coup that overthrew Mossadegh in Iran and helped toss the Middle East into its still-boiling cauldron.
In a rational world, Congress would be grilling Tillerson about the company's conduct, not preparing to hand him the country's plum unelected job. But climate change means not just the collapse of the planet's fundamental systems . It also means that the energy business is in serious trouble. Big oil has underperformed on the stock market for years. Exxon's once-sterling profit record is now checkered at best. And as a result it's resorted to every kind of chicanery.
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